Here's my version: After reciving various letters about the lawsuit, Prince gives Taking Me To Paradise a listen and finds out how unnesscary the lawsuit is. Prince would then try to tell them "IT WAS MY SONG, IT WAS MY MELODY, I DIDN'T COPY IT!!! I BELIEVE MY SONG WAS ONE OF THE BEST 90S BALLADS EVER WRITTEN AND THERE'S NO WAY TRYING TO STOP ITS LEGACY AND ITS ROLE IN THE "PRINCE VERSES WARNER BROTHERS" SERIES OF EVENTS" to prove he wanted him stopped and they would ignore him. To prove that he had no role with the lawsuit, Prince decides to reissue the Gold Experience album [through Sony via NPG Records] with a modification idea taken directly from Monty Phyton, and also warns fans that TGE wasn't a Warner-owned album ,as he personally owns the masters. The replacement to TMBGITW features the NPG Operator saying something among the lines of this:

"This track cannot be found in The Beautiful Experience due to being involved in a ongoing plagiarisment lawsuit which The Artist thinks is total bogus. Sorry about that!" (maybe have the song's intro cut to the Operator before the melody can kick in)

The lawsuit contuines without Prince, and the spoken TMBGITW replacement is labelled as an NPG Opreator segue when it is reissued by Sony.

[Edited 9/3/20 23:47pm]

this is the worst fan fic i've ever read

lustmealways said:

this is the worst fan fic i've ever read

Wait. You actually read it?

That lawsuit has been going on for a long time. Prince had ample opportunity to be involved with it, and almost certainly was at various stages.

It's a bogus lawsuit anyway. The songs sound nothing alike other than a similar few notes on a vocal part. Well, there's only so many melodies in the world. When you've written thousands of songs, some of them will bear small similarities to others just on coincidence.

It's not a Blurred Lines situation, which was very obviously taken whole-sale from Marvin Gaye.

Militant said:

LoveGalore said:

Militant said:

steakfinger said:

The joke about a reissue was funny

I've heard quite a few Prince songs that sound like other songs . . . Erotic City sounds like White Horse (or was it vice versa?), Cream sounds like Bang A Gong, and Guitar sounds like both I Will Follow and Back In The USSR. Lavaux sounds like The Pointer Sisters' Automatic, which sounds like Prince to begin with, and Chelsea Rodgers sounds like a song that escapes me at the moment.

I know there are a handful of others -- BUT, I have never heard any similarity between TMBGITW and Taking Me To Paradise!! I've listened, and I've tried to hear something. I can't.

steakfinger said:

One small point of disagreement: Blurred Lines sounds nothing like the Marvin Gaye song any more than Oh Sheila sounds like a Prince song. Using similar sounds and production techniques has nothing to do with chord changes, lyrics, and melody. If anything, Blurred Lines as a composition is closer to Kiss by Prince than anything by Marvin Gaye.

You really think the instrumental to "Got to Give It Up" sounds nothing like "Blurred Lines"?
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https://www.youtube.com/w...J3ryqN-1tg

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Really? Nothing like? That's the take you're going with? Most people concede to a "well maybe vaugely similar" or even a "well there's only so many possible melodies or combinations of notes" blah blah.... But you're that brazen to go full "nothing like"? Of that specific instrumental linked?? It might as well be like comparing "Happy Birthday" to "O Fortuna"? k.

[Edited 9/4/20 16:57pm]

AaronReturn2005 said:

Here's my version: After reciving various letters about the lawsuit, Prince gives Taking Me To Paradise a listen and finds out how unnesscary the lawsuit is. Prince would then try to tell them "IT WAS MY SONG, IT WAS MY MELODY, I DIDN'T COPY IT!!! I BELIEVE MY SONG WAS ONE OF THE BEST 90S BALLADS EVER WRITTEN AND THERE'S NO WAY TRYING TO STOP ITS LEGACY AND ITS ROLE IN THE "PRINCE VERSES WARNER BROTHERS" SERIES OF EVENTS" to prove he wanted him stopped and they would ignore him. To prove that he had no role with the lawsuit, Prince decides to reissue the Gold Experience album [through Sony via NPG Records] with a modification idea taken directly from Monty Phyton, and also warns fans that TGE wasn't a Warner-owned album ,as he personally owns the masters. The replacement to TMBGITW features the NPG Operator saying something among the lines of this:

"This track cannot be found in The Beautiful Experience due to being involved in a ongoing plagiarisment lawsuit which The Artist thinks is total bogus. Sorry about that!" (maybe have the song's intro cut to the Operator before the melody can kick in)

The lawsuit contuines without Prince, and the spoken TMBGITW replacement is labelled as an NPG Opreator segue when it is reissued by Sony.

[Edited 9/3/20 23:47pm]

Jesus, put down the pipe and take a breath of some regular air.